Last year, I asked if Google would surpass MSFT by 2010, this year, with Google crossing $600 and $700 in a matter of weeks, Silicon Alley’s Henry Blodget and Tech Crunch’s Duncan Riley are getting in on the fun.
For the record, it is highly possible to think that Google will be worth a lot more than it’s worth today, but there’s also a lot to suggest that it won’t. When you break down the variables, it’s plausible to think that Google might be the world’s first trillion dollar company, too, but there is enough to suggest that that company will be based in China or India, and involved in wireless. Of course, these last three traits are right now very speculative, so Google is as good of a bet as any. But more on Google later, the thing that struck me most with Duncan Riley’s most, who is Australian, is that he asks: Imperium: Google’s March Towards Becoming America’s Biggest Company. continue reading...
